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Method for providing weather information to a mobile vehicle

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-02-02
GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY
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Radio broadcasts of the weather on local radio stations are intermittent and often a user does not know when to expect a weather report.

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[0044]FIG. 2 illustrates a flowchart 200 representative of a method of providing weather information in accordance with the present invention.

[0045] During stage S202, a weather request including a GPS signal is received from a MVCU 110 at a call center 170. The weather request is transmitted from the MVCU 110 in response to an activation of a vehicle weather request service. In one embodiment, the vehicle weather request service is activated with a button press in MVCU 110. For example, the weather option button push establishes a wireless communication link between the telematics unit 120 and the call center 170 and the weather request is transmitted over the open wireless communication link. The wireless communication link includes one or more wireless carrier systems 140, one or more communication networks 142, and / or one or more land networks 144. The GPS signal for the MVCU 110 is included in the weather request.

[0046] In one embodiment, the vehicle weather request service is...

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[0071]FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart 700 representative of a method of providing weather information in accordance with the present invention. In this embodiment, the user of the telematics unit 120 selects to view a map with weather icons indicating the weather forecast for an extended time range.

[0072] During stage S702, the call center 170 receives a weather request from the telematics unit 120 for an extended time range including a first time range and a second time range. The weather request also includes the GPS signal received from a MVCU 110 at a call center 170. The extended time range weather request is transmitted from the MVCU 110 in response to an activation of a vehicle weather request service. The user indicates the extended time ranges by a second button push. The second button push prompts the user to select the desired time ranges. The desired time ranges can be selected by a sequence of keystrokes on the display or a keypad in the telematics unit 120 or by verball...

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[0082]FIG. 8 illustrates a flowchart 800 representative of a method of providing weather information in accordance with the present invention. In this embodiment, the user of the telematics unit 120 selects to view the weather icons associated with an extended-area map that includes a local area map and an outside-area map.

[0083] During stage S802, the call center 170 receives a weather request for an extended-area, which includes the local area and the outside-area. The extended-area weather request includes a GPS signal, a local area GPS signal and an outside-area indicator. The outside-area indicator includes an outside-point and an outside-radius. The weather request is transmitted from the MVCU 110 in response to the user activating a vehicle weather request service for an extended-area.

[0084] The local area includes the area within a local-radius centered about the geographical point indicated by the GPS signal. The user selects the outside-area. To select the outside-area, t...

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Abstract

A method of providing weather information to a mobile vehicle includes receiving a weather request including a GPS signal from the mobile vehicle at a call center, determining a map based on the GPS signal, associating at least one weather icon with the map and displaying the map with the icon at the vehicle.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] This invention relates generally to a telematics system weather indicator. In particular, the invention relates to a method, system and computer usable medium for displaying a weather indicator on a map in a mobile vehicle. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The opportunity to personalize features in a mobile vehicle is ever increasing as the automobile is being transformed into a communications and entertainment platform as well as a transportation platform. Many new cars are installed with some type of telematics unit to provide wireless communication and location-based services. These services may be accessed through interfaces such as voice-recognition computer applications, touch-screen computer displays, computer keyboards, or a series of buttons on the dashboard or console of a vehicle. [0003] Currently, telematics service call centers, in-vehicle compact disk (CD) or digital video display (DVD) media, web portals, and voice-enabled phone portals...

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IPC IPC(8): G08G1/123G06F17/30G08G1/09
CPCG06F17/30241G08G1/0962H04L67/18H04L67/04H04L67/36G06F16/29H04L67/75H04L67/52
Inventor TUMMALA, PAVANI
Owner GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY
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